Legion Morale

[son of malkav]

Currently playing in act III and legion morale is simply tanking. I have not found any traders that would sell me stuff to raise morale and also after victory so seldom do I get the chance to "celebrate". Also the negative stats the enemy throws at me are really annoyingly high and especially the logistics part is seriously annyoing (reducing morale even further).

So my question is this: How do I increase legion morale in act III? I dont want to reach -100....

[Cursed Life]

My tactic was to always use "celebrate" every time from the beginning.

[asarokk]

Are you just now paying attention to the status of your legion morale? Ideally it's something you work on continuously since Act I.

Picking the stratagems at the end of legion battles which increases morale and buying something for the whole legion from a merchant.

Certain quests and random travel events may increase or decrease morale depending on your choices.

The most helpful way of gradually increasing legion morale and by now perhaps your only chance, is by making use of the roman bath stationed in your outpost by placing a praetorian there, preferably one with the social trait. The rate and amount depends on how far you've upgraded the baths.

Concerning praetorian morale, most classes have skills that either affect morale (both your praetorians and that of your enemies). The triarii class has especially useful skills. Plus there's also a tactical item, a banner that increases morale of every praetorian nearby.

[son of malkav]

Originally posted by Charmed Life:

My tactic was to always use "celebrate" every time from the beginning.

I did that in act 1 and had great morale as a benefit of that. But now in act III I simply dont get that choice anymore and thus my morale plumets.

[son of malkav]

Originally posted by asarokk:

Are you just now paying attention to the status of your legion morale? Ideally it's something you work on continuously since Act I.

Picking the stratagems at the end of legion battles which increases morale and buying something for the whole legion from a merchant.

Certain quests and random travel events may increase or decrease morale depending on your choices.

The most helpful way of gradually increasing legion morale and by now perhaps your only chance, is by making use of the roman bath stationed in your outpost by placing a praetorian there, preferably one with the social trait. The rate and amount depends on how far you've upgraded the baths.

Concerning praetorian morale, most classes have skills that either affect morale (both your praetorians and that of your enemies). The triarii class has especially useful skills. Plus there's also a tactical item, a banner that increases morale of every praetorian nearby.

No, I understand how morale works. My pretorians are happy (bathing) my centurions can get happy through the same cause, even though its a little more unweildy. I also figured out how morale works in tactical combat.

But what about legion morale? In act 1 and act 2 I got the "celebrate" option on a regular basis. Also you could find the occasional wine seller to increase morale. But now in act 3 all of it seems basically gone. No winesellers anywhere, also "celebrate" might come up once every 6th battle. That of course can not offset the constant drain when my enemy piles up the logistics debuff during battles.
So what can I do about this? I have to try the social guy bathing routine that you mentioned. But is there really no other, less cheesy way to increase morale?

[Meta]

You would have to focus on Logistics during Legion battles to increase your morale quickly and effectively..

[son of malkav]

Originally posted by Meta:

You would have to focus on Logistics during Legion battles to increase your morale quickly and effectively..

I already do. But even my best centurions have only 2 logistics and the enemy general can easily debuff with -8 logistics in a single turn and then the turn afterwards and then the turn afterwards again. And yes I have everything upgraded to the highest level.
Also a weird thing that happened to me is that I can easily loose 3 of my centurions even when they have a 90% survival rate and there were no debuffs like (25% chance of centurion death) during a battle. Had that happen a few times now. So getting a centurion up to even have 2 army skills is difficult. This stuff never happened to me in act 1 and 2.

Anyway just happy that the constantly parking a social dude bathing hack works and my army morale is in control somewhat now.
Still why cant I use the tried and true method of nearly all Ceasars of giving a large financial donative and calling for a feast to improve loyalty and morale of my troops? That has been THE method in history to make soldiers happy. But no, I have to get only of my fellows to constantly soak in the bath. Weird, simply weird.

[Jeff]

Use the bath, my friend. That takes the morale to a certain point. After that, it can only go up based on how things play out. But it will prevent your legion from suffering.